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expression
expression
noun
Definition of EXPRESSION
1
an act, process, or means of putting something into words <the poem is his expression of his grief upon the loss of his beloved wife>
2
facial appearance regarded as an indication of mood or feeling <we could tell by the fans' expressions that the Chicago Cubs had lost again>
3
a pronounceable series of letters having a distinct meaning especially in a particular field <the expression “John Doe” is used in legal proceedings to refer to a person whose actual name is either unknown or being withheld from the public>
Synonyms expression, term
Related Words linguistic form, monosyllable, morpheme, speech form; polysyllable; collocation, idiom, locution, phrase; archaism, coinage, colloquialism, euphemism, loanword, modernism, neologism, vernacularism
4
a sequence of words having a specific meaning <the popular expression “raining cats and dogs” is meaningless in other languages>
Synonyms expression, idiom
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